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" Reproductive choice seems to have come back to center stage again. Partly, this is because Willard Romney took time out from surfing his momentum to have another quadrophenic episode in public on the subject. And partly, this is because of this particular baldheaded bag of douche from Tennessee: &amp;quot;You told me you&amp;#039;d have an abortion, and now we&amp;#039;re getting too far along without one,&amp;quot; DesJarlais tells the woman at one point in the call while negotiating with her over whether he&amp;#039;ll reveal her identity to his wife. They then discuss whether he will accompany her to a procedure to end the sort of life the congressman now describes as &amp;quot;sacred.&amp;quot; What a swell guy. I remind the assembled that this goober is a United States Congressman. Who is running for re-election. Who likely will be re-elected. Here&amp;#039;s what I know, as is demonstrated in both these cases. (All Romney&amp;#039;s doing is making the same argument theoretically that DeJarlais tried to run by his girlfriend. It&amp;#039;s all about expediency.) There are very few people who actually are pro-life. There is more talk-talking and less walk-walking on this issue than there is among the Romney boys regarding military service. (By the way, if anyone should ask, Josh? You&amp;#039;re a punk.) Push most of these people to the wall, especially the Penis-Americans in the congregation, and they&amp;#039;re dialing the clinic faster than almost anyone else. In our politics, anyway, the fight against reproductive freedom always has been a fight over women&amp;#039;s control of their own bodies and their right to make their own health-care decisions without the meddling of Bible-banging secular hypocrites and the Clan of the Red Beanie. This is why the fight suddenly was joined this past year over what was thought to be the previously settled issue of contraception. Just as the real target was never Roe, but Griswold, and never abortion, but privacy, the political conflict always has been about control. Congressman DeJarlais was all right with his girlfriend&amp;#039;s getting an abortion as long as he got to make the decision and as long as the procedure made his life a little more convenient. Romney, I assure you, would be perfectly fine if one of his boys came to him with a similar problem. He&amp;#039;s running for office, for Pete&amp;#039;s sake. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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